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Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary docuseries features episode about Blue Öyster Cult More Cowbell sketch

A new docuseries celebrating the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live debuts in January and will feature an episode about the infamous “More Cowbell” sketch, which aired in 2000 and centered around the recording of Blue Öyster Cult’s classic tune “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.”According to a ...
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Lenny Kravitz, Pretenders, Jackson Browne confirmed for California’s BeachLife Festival

Lenny Kravitz, Pretenders and Jackson Browne are among the artists set to play the 2025 edition of the BeachLife Festival May 2-4 in Redondo Beach, California.Kravitz will headline opening night, with Sublime and Alanis Morissette the festival’s other two headliners. The Pretenders are set to ...
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On This Day, Jan. 7, 2020: Rush drummer Neil Peart passed away

On This Day, Jan. 7, 2020 ...Rush drummer Neil Peart passed away following a battle with glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He was 67.Peart had been diagnosed with the disease over three years earlier, but kept his condition a secret from the public.Peart ...
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Developers apologize after bulldozing childhood home of AC/DC stars

Developers in Sydney, Australia, have issued an apology after bulldozing the childhood home of AC/DC rockers Malcolm and Angus Young, the Herald Sun reports.Burwood Square Pty Ltd purchased the home in February 2023 and recently demolished it, something that shouldn't have happened because in 2013 the property ...
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Lenny Kravitz announces new Las Vegas residency dates

Lenny Kravitz is returning to Las Vegas.The rocker just announced a new set of dates for his Blue Electric Light Las Vegas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM. Lenny is set to return for five more shows: Aug. 1, Aug. 2, Aug. 6, ...
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After more than 300 weeks, Elton John album may finally hit #1

Talk about a slow climb to #1: An Elton John album is looking like it's finally going to top the U.K. chart after hanging around in the Top 40 for more than 300 weeks.Elton's greatest hits compilation Diamonds, originally released in 2017, has spent ...
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Blondie’s Debbie Harry on the downside of turning 80: ‘Everyone’s gone already’

Blondie's Debbie Harry will turn 80 in July. So, how does she feel about celebrating such a milestone birthday?“I don’t walk around thinking every minute, oh my God, I’m going be 80 — but that’s sort of how I feel,” she tells the U.K. paper The Times. ...
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Bon Jovis Slippery When Wet deluxe and vinyl versions coming in February

If you've always "Wanted" a deluxe edition of Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet — "Dead or Alive" — your dream has come true.The band will release a deluxe version of their world-beating 1986 album on Feb. 28, 2025, as well as various vinyl variations of ...
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Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reveal biggest regret about final tour

Rush launched their final tour in 2015, which hit only the U.S. and Canada, and surviving band members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reveal they regret they couldn’t bring their show to other countries."I’d pushed really hard to get more gigs so that we ...
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U2’s Bono pens essay on freedom following Presidential Medal of Freedom honor

U2 frontman Bono received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Saturday, and in honor of the occasion he’s penned a new essay for The Atlantic, titled The Gorgeous, Unglamorous Work of Freedom.“Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs,” ...
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